Around Swedish America in 
Day 9 - Prince Rupert
Most Alaska cruises pull in to Prince Rupert and most every passenger brings back an image of the gigantic grain terminal that supplies Canadian wheat and barley to much of the eastern world.
If the grain elevators are the church towers of the Canadian prairie, then the huge grain terminal in Prince Rupert must be nothing less than the basilica of St Peter's. With a storage capacity of more than 200,000 tons, its eight shipping bins and three tower-mounted loading spouts have a throughput of over seven million tonnes a year, or 4,000 tonnes an hour. That is the highest throughput of any grain-cleaning elevator in Canada. Construction of the gigantic Prince Rupert Grain terminal was finished in 1985. It was built in three years on time and within budget, and it was a Swedish company that did it.
Many of Canada's landmarks like the CN Tower and Eaton Centre in Toronto, Place Ville Marie in Montreal and Vancouver's Harbour and Vancouver Centers were constructed by the Foundation Company. The Lester B. Pearson Airport in Toronto and all the legendary Canadian Chateau hotels were also constructed by the same company. The Foundation Company has really moulded the skylines of every major Canadian city. When Foundation started building more and more international projects like the Bourgiba Flood Control Dam in Tunisia and the world's largest irrigation system in Peru, the Swedish construction giant Skanska acquired a controlling interest in Foundation, so you could say that Foundation was Swedish when the Prince Rupert Grain Terminal was built. The engineer in charge was Peter Wilén on loan from Skanska in Sweden. After ten years, Skanska sold parts of its holding in Foundation that instead became a part of the Bannister Group, so that is why you no longer see the square Foundation sign on building sites across the country.